Space Force Saturdays SPACE WORLDS "Midnight Horror"

Our final story from Space Squadron/Space Worlds features yet another scheme by Edgar Revere...

....the strip's resident cowardly Baltar/Dr Smith-type and son of esteemed Space Squadron commander Blast Revere!

Ignore the fact that outer space itself is a vacuum, so the Earth couldn't leave a "vacuum trail", and the story's quite entertaining!

Sadly, Edgar never received his just desserts in the strip.

Illustrated by Allen Bellman, this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Space Worlds #6 (1952) was the final adventure of the Space Squadron before they jetted off into publishing limbo.

Next week: we've run out of stories from Speed Carter: SpaceMan and Space Squadron, but there's still a gallery of kool covers from both series that you'll see next week, along with info about what will follow in the Saturday posting slot!

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Space Force Saturdays SPACE WORLDS "Vengance of X-1"

One of the kool things about sci-fi comics is that, until the late 1970s...

...they visualized concepts, environments, technology, and situations no then-existing SFX technology could convincingly-show to an audience!

Artist Allen Bellman and the unknown writer really let their imaginations run amok in this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Space Worlds #6 (1952).
No TV show of the era, and few feature films (perhaps War of the Worlds or Forbidden Planet) could possibly have mustered the SFX technology to even approach this sort of thing, which today could be done by a high-budget TV show or mid-budget feature film.

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Space Force Saturdays SPACE WORLDS "Temptress of Jupiter!"

There are secrets aplenty under the clouds of the Solar System's largest planet...

...but will Jet Dixon and his crew discover them?

In the 1950s we weren't certain of what lay under Jupiter's cloud cover, so sci-fi writers had total freedom to guess what was there.

Artist Allen Bellman and the unknown writer gave it their best shot in Atlas' Space Worlds #6 (1952).

(The Space Squadron comic was retitled for unknown reasons, though the features were the same as in previous issues!)

The rebranding didn't work since this would be the final issue, under any title, of the run!

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Space Force Saturdays SPACE SQUADRON "Challenge of the Moon Things!"

With our own, delayed, Olympics finally about to get under way...

..let's see how the games are handled when multiple alien species, each with their own unique physical attributes, go head-to-head in sporting competition!

So, alien species are as sexist as humans?
Does this mean it's a (literally) universal tendency?

This never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Space Squadron #5 (1952) is amusing, showing its' Terra-centric tendencies in how EarthMen always triumph, even in sporting events that other species should win, due to naturally-superior abilities!

It's almost as if the games were rigged to favor humans...

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Space Force Saturday SPACE SQUADRON "Judgment of Boz!"

Behind this spooky (if off-model) Sol Brodsky/Joe Maneely cover...

...from the never-reprinted Atlas' Space Squadron #5 (1952) is an apocalyptic tale about a delusional, obese, but dangerous potential dictator in the 21st Century!

(Who does that remind us of?)

If this tale was produced today, it would be a book-length story with full and double-page splashes!
Yet artist Allen Bellman and the unknown writer pulled it off in only five extremely-crowded pages!

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FCBD Delayed...But Not Space Force Saturday SPACE SQUADRON "Ring of Flame!"

Usually, the first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day...

...but this year, due to Covid-19, it's been moved!

So, let's dive into this week's Space Force Saturday...which won't be pre-empted today, but will be on August 14th!

I suspect Atlas was trying out a new colorist on this never-reprinted tale from Space Squadron #4 (1951)!

Otherwise, with all respect to penciler/inker Werner Roth, it's not a particularly-memorable tale.

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Space Force Saturdays SPACE SQUADRON "Menace of the Martians"

What happens when a strip ignores it's own backstory...

...and changes an alien race's entire history...for no reason at all?

This never-reprinted story from Atlas' Space Squadron #4 (1951) contradicted the Space Squadron #1 tale that introduced Max in several ways!

Notably, that Martians, who were as scientifically and intellectually-advanced as Earthers (though with extremely-short tempers), are now simply savage beings who wish to slay anything living that's not them!
There's no reason I can think of, except that it's likely the anonymous writer of this particular tale was new and unfamiliar with the series!

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